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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Women Being Kidnapped and Sexually Exploited: Oh That's So Odd and Quirky


In recent news of the odd, a man in a position of power extorts sexual favours from women prisoners in exchange for candy. Another man kidnaps a Malaysian woman who turns down his marriage proposal. Haha, that's so odd, so trivial, good for a laugh or two before I go read the real news. You know, the important stuff:

Amazon.com makes lots of money.
O.J. Simpson blah blah blah.
AT&T makes lots of money.
Laura Bush raises breast cancer awareness in Saudi Arabia.
New York Times makes lots of money.

Via Shakesville, with this comment:
I don't understand why I need to explain why a woman being kidnapped should not be filed under "odd news," but, because I evidently do, here's the lowdown (again): In recent months, I've read under the heading of "Odd News" stories about a man branding his wife with a hot iron, a man coercing his wife into having plastic surgery to look like his deceased first wife, wives/girlfriends/exes being held against their will in various "odd" places including a coffin, women being traded for "odd" objects or offered as reparations for "odd" transgressions, "odd" forms of abuse against women, and women doing notable things good and bad, that, while newsworthy, only seem to be "odd-worthy" because they were done by women, all reported alongside such frivolous fare as "Chocoholic squirrel steals treats from shop".

More on the Laura Bush Story to come.

2 comments:

Polly Jones said...

Ugh.

Odd news to come: Calgary woman turned vigilante...

princesspatrice said...

I think things like this just show how messed up our society's values are. I think what we label important or "breaking news" isn't all that important. Tom Brady's girlfriend giving birth shouldn't interrupt a show and be talked about for 20 minutes. I don't care that Britney Spears was in court yet again with Kevin Federline. I think that the news has fallen into the same category as entertainment tonight. They pick and choose what to show and the things that they choose are just attention grabbers and not always so full of substance.